The Daily Nibble

Sometimes it sucks being a webmaster!  My least favorite thing of everything running a successful website involves, is link building and link exchanges.  The whole process is quite absurd as you kindly ask people in your niche to link to your site in return for linking to theirs.  At the end of the day the only people that gain an advantage from such a system are the scammers and spammers who spend hours and use software to build an artificial presence on the web.

The reason I am rambling on about this is I just did some cleaning on our links page.  Basically I removed a bunch of sites that we had linked to hoping to get a little link love in return.  After several months if they have not linked back and don’t really have anything to offer our readers I clean them off the list.

Sometimes it feels good to do this.  We put our heart and soul into our website and make our site always about content first instead of just trying to make money.  So we tend to take it personal when we find websites in our swinger niche that ignore our requests for a link exchange.  It makes me wonder if they think our website sucks, or what issues they have with us. 

I can understand if it was a blog about jewelry, movies, or even a purely sexual blog.  But why would a blog about swinging not think our blog is a good fit?  We will give anyone the benefit of the doubt often linking to brand new swingers blog before they even have any readers (Trust me…most webmaster don’t do this)

Gentle Nibbles currently has over thirty thousand hits a month, over 200 readers, and we think it is full of terrific content, so it just confounds me when our blog is not good enough for a link on another blog or website specifically in the swinging niche.  In these cases it kind of feels good to hit the delete button on a link to a blog or website that we feel is taking advantage of all our free unreciprocated traffic.

OK So that was awful harsh and we are not really that pissy but there is atleast a couple of ounces of truth in the words above! 

Getting off the soapbox and up from the psychologist’s couch…

~Mr. Gentlenibbles

Today was a record setting day for unique visitors and pageviews at Gentlenibbles.com.  Thanks to a good bit of traffic we received from http://world-sex-news.com.  Today our article on the Monogamous House Party was featured on their main blog page and referred 192 visitors from that article alone.  I had no idea their site was getting that kind of traffic.

This comes as gentlenibbles comes off its two strongest months back to back since its birth about a year and a half ago.  This is really good news to help counter the frustration we have seen over the last few weeks from Google.  For some reason about four weeks ago Google cut the amount of referrers it was sending by over ninety percent.  And as with all things Google, there is no rhyme or reason.  Nothing had changed on our site, but after the release of Google’s latest algorithm we started receiving much less love.

Fortunately, at the same time Yahoo decided they loved the crap out of us and really picked up their referrals.  Especially for the search queries of “squirting”, “female ejaculation”, and “sexting”.  Of which we have a total of four posts regarding those subjects…. Who knew?

Regardless, we still have tons of work to do in the seo department! 

~Mr. Gentlenibbles